“My responsibility is to be bold”

Abstract

In this interview, Georgina Born retraces the origins of two of her major ethnographic studies, at Ircam and the BBC, and delves into how she developed her specific, interdisciplinary methodology. She makes a convincing case for reading outside disciplinary borders, and discusses how her research has changed as she has become more established. Her critics are addressed, and the interview ends with a glance to future projects which aim to bring together the various threads her research has explored over the years.

Keywords

• ethnography
• music in the late 20th and 21st centuries
• music and mediation
• cultural institutions
• interdisciplinarity
• cultural production